How to Set Different Pricing Rules for Foils and Sealed Product on TCGplayer

A single blanket multiplier across your whole inventory usually overprices sealed product and underprices foils, since they move with the market differently than nonfoil singles. Writing a pricing rule scoped to finish or product type fixes this without touching your other rules.

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Step 1: Open Settings > Rules

Go to Settings > Rules to use the wizard, or search from the Cards tab and bookmark the search if you’d rather build the rule that way.

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Step 2: Filter to foils with the foil: token

In the rule’s search query, use the foil: token to match finish. It’s comma-list aware, so you can match multiple finishes in one rule: foil:foil for foils, foil:etched,foil for etched and regular foil together. There’s no separate finish: token — finishes are always matched with foil:. Combine it with other filters as needed, like a set or rarity: foil:foil set:"Bloomburrow".

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Step 3: Filter to sealed product separately

Sealed product is a different product type, not a finish, so filter on product type instead of foil:. In the Rules wizard, set the filter’s product type to sealed. If you’re building the rule as a raw search from the Cards tab, sealed and singles are distinguished by TCGplayer’s own product-type field on each listing.

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Step 4: Set the multiplier for each rule

Give the foil rule and the sealed rule their own multipliers — foils commonly carry a different premium than nonfoil singles, and sealed product usually needs its own logic entirely (often closer to 1.0x, since sealed markets move differently than singles).

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Step 5: Check rule order

Rules are first-match-wins, evaluated top to bottom. If a card could match more than one of your rules — say, a foil rule and a broader set-wide rule — put the more specific one higher in the list so it wins.

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Step 6: Preview and save

Use the wizard’s preview to check matched card count and the estimated dollar swing before saving. Save, then confirm with Test a card that a specific foil or sealed item picked up the right rule.

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Note on custom and photo listings

A custom listing (no TCGplayer product ID) doesn’t carry finish information, so foil: filtering doesn’t apply to it the same way. If the underlying product ships in multiple finishes, Hoard’s market seeding either matches the closest-priced finish or abstains rather than guessing — see pricing a custom or photo listing. See foil and sealed pricing strategy for the reasoning behind treating them separately, and advanced search query syntax for the full list of query tokens.